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2 FEMALE UFE IN PRISON.
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Yet do they live , and count as we do the days of the week and the days of the month . Breakfast and dinner and supper arrive
and pass for this dreary population , and each knows that it is the 1 st of September 1862 as well as any reader who glances over
, , these pages . For the date which to you means Magazine day , or bird-shooting day , day for idling on the seashore or sketching in a
Welsh valley , to them means a certain notch in the stick , actual or im Millbank aginary , on is an which immense are reckoned ugly mass the days of brickwork of penal s near ervitude "Vauxhall .
Bridge ; one side of it extends close to the back of the handsome new houses in Victoria Street , Westminster . It is a startling thing
to go to a dinner-party in one of these houses , and in ascending the stairsif perchance the ainted windows are opento see the huge
_down , ing walls , brooding p like Nemesis over our gay , and kindly social life . One asks where is the deep-seated flaw , when a handsome dinner
table , with its silver , its glass , its flowers , its courteous travelled host have , as and immediate even the pendant devoted that clergymen fi _? ihtful who dwellin frequent g and that that dreary board ,
g crew ? Are they of the same humanity , that accomplished woman with the Etruscan ornaments , attending so sweetly to her husband ' s
guests , and that female fiend who last week knocked down three men , smashed nine windows , broke her scanty furniture into little
bits , tore up her sheets into strips , and coolly begged the scared officials to wait " until she had finished her blanket" ?
There are children too in that household , pretty curled darlings in white worked frocks and little fat bare legs and red shoes , who
come down and sit by their Papa at dessert , and have figs and raisins , and a teaspoonful of port wine in spite of Mamma ' s foreboding
remonstrances . In Millbank , just at the back , is a female creature who made away with two children because their father deserted
her , and she was going on a journey and she didn't know what to do with them & c . & c .
_> Millbankwhen , the writer was a child , occupied a large open space where , it was possible to find daisies and buttercups , and
building always diml resembles y represented a wheel a , country the governor walk . ' s house The ground occupy -p ing lan a of circle the
in the centre , from which radiate six piles of building , terminating externallin towers . The was supposed by the little
in London the middle child y who of this ran about wheel , p governor icking with eyes the preternaturall daisies , to sit y permanently enabled to
look in six directions at once ; to be a sort of monstrous man-spider in his webThe neihborhood has been built over ; social lifeas
has been described . , creep g s up nearer and nearer , perhaps not an unapt , symbol of the more kindltheories which constantly increase as to
the treatment of criminals y _; but the vast prison is there , stern and immobile as ever . It is said to have cost half a million sterling ;
and may well hold its own and decline to be packed up like a
Crystal Palace , or ike work of any amateur or virtuoso . t - .
2 Female Ufe In Prison.
2 _FEMALE _UFE IN PRISON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/2/
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